The basic internal combustion engine.
Without it, we'd still be spending half our lives travelling places.
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#12Liquid paper.
Invented in 1956 by a typist, in her kitchen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Paper
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rice cooker = hipster Instant Pot.
Isn't that reversed? Instant Pot === hipster Rice Cooker
Well i'd say dossy is right. Because he's assigning "Rice cooker" to equal "hipster Instant Pot". Thus we know that they are the same value. You are only doing a test. We don't know for sure if your conditional returns true.
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#16Maybe not "most important", but a few dollars worth of post-it notes can turn any wall into a "business application" that can potentially cost thousands to turn into code.
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#17Bicycles are pretty amazing, although there's no way you could 'build one yourself'.
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#18Seat-belts maybe. Not as important as the car itself obviously, but definitely simple and super impactful.
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#19> A twistlock and corner casting together form a standardized rotating connector for securing shipping containers. The primary uses are for locking a container into place on a container ship, semi-trailer truck or railway container train, and for lifting of the containers by container cranes and sidelifters.
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#20> A twistlock and corner casting together form a standardized rotating connector for securing shipping containers. The primary uses are for locking a container into place on a container ship, semi-trailer truck or railway container train, and for lifting of the containers by container cranes and sidelifters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistlock
Actually the shipping container itself is pretty much high up there I guess. Pretty revolutionary for a box.